Boot-cleaner.



E.- G. KILLERBRUE.

BOOT GLBANEB. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 5. 1907.

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BOOT ULEANER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 5, 1907.

926,749, Patented July 6, 1909. 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2. 15 5. 76

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ENGSLEY GILES KILLERBRUE, OF KFYOSHA, WISVONSIN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF 'lO WILLIAM Fv MARTIN, OF KENOSHA, WlStOINSIN.

BOOT-CLEANER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 6, 1909.

Application filed August 5, 1907.

Serial No. 387,244.

as by bolts passed through bolt openings 15 in said. feet and entering the floor. The lip 10 which at this stage of the formation of the device projects outwardly is now bent down adjacent to and in confbrmity with one of the sides of the cleaner, and thereby not only serves to reinforce the device, but also acts as a spring tongue pressing against one of the sides 12, and serving to retain said side To all whom it may conccrn. 1

Be it known that 1, Enosrnr inns KiL- LERBRUE, resir'ring in Kenosha, in the county of Kenosha and State of Eiisconsin, have inj r) vented new and useful Improvements in Boot-Cleaners, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the acl companying drawings, which a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in in close engagement with the opposite side boot cleaners, and more particularly to 12, thereby dis 'iensing entirely with the nebrushes employing devices for cleaning the j ccssity of employing rivets for holding the soles and sides of boots and shoes. 1 said two sides together. The circular tubes The primary object of the invention is to t 11 form sockets for the shanks of brushes l6,

1 provide a shoe cleaning device employing 16, the bristles of said brushes 'nojecting inmeans for cleaning the bottom of the soles, wardly toward each other. 'llhe edge from and brushes for cleaning the sides of the sole. 1 which the lip extends, and which when the ith the above primary object, and other device is completely shaped to form, exincidental objects,in view, the invention contends from one brush socket 11 to the other,

?"- sists of the devices and parts, or their equivaforms a doubled and reinforced, scraping edge 17 for the sole of the shoe, and is there- In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is i by rendered capable of withstanding the a side elevation of one form of my device; 1 maitimum amount of wear. Fig. 2 is a cross section on the line 22 of In the use of the device, a person places the 5 Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a plan view of Fig. 1; Fig. at sole of the shoe on the edge 17, and by drawis a side elevation of a modified form of coning the foot back and forth over this edge, struction; Fig. is a plan view of Fig. 4t; mud and dirt are readily taken off the sole of Fig. 6 is a side elevation of another modified 1 the shoe, and at the same time the side lents, as hereinafter set forth.

form of construction; Fig. 7 is an end view of brushes 16 clean the sides of the sole of the 3 Fig. 6. shoe. If the shoe is narrower than the space The form of construction illustrated in between the brushes 16, the foot can, of Figs. 1, 2 and 3 is made from a single sheet course, be moved laterally in one direction of metal through which, before said metal is into engagement with one of said brushes, bent into shape, a U-shaped cut longitudiand then laterally in the opposite direction nally thereof is made, leaving a rectangular into engagement with the other of said lip 10. The lip so formed is bent outwardly, brushes. and the solid metal beyond the ends of the Referring to the modified device illuscut, by means of a die, or other suitable trated in Figs. 4 and 5, this device is also means, are pressed outwardly in substanmade from a single sheet of metal, the blank, tially half circular formations. These half before being formed into shape, having a reccircular projections are next brought totangular piece cut out of it centrally, as ind igether to form upper circular tubes 11, 11. cated by the muneral 18. This differs from The metal is also brought together along the the Figs. 1 to 3 form of construction in that line of juncture of the lip 10 with the main in said latter form, and as previously exbody of the metal blank, so that said line of plaincd, only a U-shaped cut is made so as to juncture will register with the longitudinal leave a projecting lip 10 which is bent down line of the cut. The twosides of the metal against the outside of one of the sides of the are also pressed downwardly adjacent to device. In the Figs. 4 and 5 form of coneach other, as indicated by the numerals 12, struction, however, a rectangular cut is made 12, and then curved outwardly, or spread so that a rectangular piece is cut entirely out apart, as indicated by the numerals 13, 13, of the blank, webs being left between the being finally bent into terminal horizontal ends of the out and the end edges of the portions forming supporting feet 14, 1 1 blank. These webs by means of a die, or adapted to be secured to the floor, or other other suitable means, are formed into half convenient support, by any desirable means, circular portions, and are then bent around to form the complete circular upper tubes 11, 11, which constitute sockets for the shanks of the side brushes 16, 16 The blank is also folded longitudinally on aplane of the vertical center of the socket, and the metal from the bend is continued downwardly in the straight portions 12, 12, and then formed with the outwardly curved or spread apart portions 13, 13, finally terminating in the horizontal feet portions 1 1, 3.4, as in the other form of construc on, d ieet portions provided with bolt openings 1X rivet 19 may be eniployei'l for holding the two tight portions 12, 12 firmly together. These straight por- {1 still more firmly tions, however, may W locked together by the provision of inturned end flanges, which are termed by cutting in the end edges of the metal, and bending the lips or flanges 20, 29 so formed inwardly against the main body of the metal. It will. be seen the scraping portion 21 of this form of construction consists of a double thickness, we edges oi the metal, as shown most clearly in whereas in the pre viously describe construction, the scraping edge i s 1 a fold of the metal.

Figs. 6 and 1 e another form of s employed a straight flat piece of metal 22, and two emi straps which latter are bent centrally to form sockets ll, 11, for the reception of the shanks of the end brushes l6, l5, and are also bent to form two straight parallel portions 23, 23 which straddle ijnfi ends of the plate and are secured tl ereto by means of rivets, the said straps be ng further bent or spread outwardly as indicated by the numerals 24, 24;, and finally terminate in the horizontal feet extensions The scrapingedge 26 of this Iorm, it will be apparent, dril ers from the eeemre scraping edges of the previously described forms, consisting as it does of merely a single edge.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. A boot and shoe cleaning means having an upper straight longitudinal edge constituting a scraping edge for the sole of a shoe, and brush holding means at opposite ends of said ed and on a plane above said edge, and said boot and shoe cleaning means also havopposite sides extending downwardly from the scraping edge and adjacent to each other, said sides at a desired distance downwardly being spread apart in opposite directions, and brushes carried by the brush holding means, the bristles thereof pointing inwardly, and said brushes adapted for cleaning the sides of the sole of the shoe.

2. A. boot cleaner, comprising a blank of sheet metal, the opposite ends of the blank medial pcrtions being bent upwardly and curved to form brush-holding sockets, and a portion of the metal of the blank between the upwardly bent portions being bent over the acent portion to form a scraping edge.

3. A boot cleaner, comprising a blank of sheet metal creased and overlapped medially to form a scraping edge and having opposite end p rtions extending above the overlapped portion and curved to form brush-holding sockets, the lower longitudinal edges of the blank being spread apart to form a support, and inwar lly extending brushes carried by said sockets.

In testimony w iereoi l affix my signature, in presence oi two witnesses.

ENGSLEY GllillS KIlJLERBRUE.

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